Coin-holder and indicator for receptacles.



W. F. ROBERTS. com HOLDER AND INDICATOR FOR RECEPTACLES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY-5.1916.

Patented Aug. 21, 1917.

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' 'Toallwlwyaitmagcamemt a citizen of the United States, reading at ful Coin-Holder and Indicator for Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to coin holders and indicators for receptacles and has more especial reference to a portable device adapted to be temporarily attached to a milk jar or the like and provided with an indicating device adapted to indicate the amount of milk or cream desired and also provided with a pocket adapted to. receive a coin or a milk ticket such as are purchased from the dairymen in'certain localities.

As the milk is generally delivered at an early' hour in the morning it is usually inconvenient for the purchaser to present the coin or milk ticket and to order the amount of milk or cream desired, in person, and it is often necessary to leavea note with the empty milk bottle and'ticket orcoin, telling the dairyman the amount of milk or cream desired.

- The objectof thepresent invention is -to provide a device by means of which the coin or milk ticket may be placed with the empty if the amount of milk or cream desired by the purchaser. g,

A further object isto provide a' device of this characterhaving means for holding the coin or milk ticket upon the-milk bottleand permitting the same to be readily removed therefrom by the dairyman;

A furtherobject is the provision of a deviceof this character which is inexpensive in construction and efiicient in use.-

1 With these objects in view'the invention. consists in the novel construction andar, rangement' of parts, hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings,

i a In .the accgnnpanyingdrayvingsa e it known that I, WILLIAM F. ROBnRTs,.. embodying my invention, showing the man- San Antonio, in the countycf Bexar and ner of applying the same to a milk jar. State of Texas, have invented a new and use-" version.

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I Fig, 3 1s a similar view through the same on an enlarged scale.

Fig. 4 is a view of the inner face of the blank from which said device is formed.

Similar numerals of reference indicate ing, the device is formed from a blank such as shown in Fig. 4. The numeral 1 indicates a strip of celluloid or other suitable material provided at its opposite extremities with the disk portions Qand 3, the portion 2 having an integral flap 4: stamped there- 'from and preferably slightly off-set. as indicated at 5. A third disk portion 6 is provided intermediate the extremities of the tween the disk portions 2 and 3.

In forming the device from the blank above described the strip 1 is bent into circular form, the rim portion 7 of'the disk 2 strip 1 preferably at a point halfway bep overlapping the disk 3 andbeing connected a thereto by-means of suitable cement or the like. The flap 4 being slightly oif-set from ticket as indicated at A in Fig. 3.

The disk 6 has imprinted upon its face a suitable dial as indicated at -8 in Fig. 1. Hands 9 are independently pivotally mounted upon the post 10 which is carried center of the dial 8. The dial indicates both [milk and cream and tickets; 80 that with the three independently movable hands the amount of milk and amount of cream may- '-both be indicated and if tickets are desired or no ticket is left in the} pocket of the device this may also be indicatedby the third hand. -A zero is provided upon the face of the dial to which any'of the hands not in use may bepoint ed.

' In use the device is slipped over the neck of a milk jar or other receptacle, the ticket; j

the rim portion 7 of the disk 2 is thus spaced a slight distance away from the disk 3 thus forming the pocket to receive a coin or by the disk portion 6 being located at the or coin being inserted back of the flap 4 as indicated in the drawings and the indicating hands moved into the pro er positions upon the dial to inform the airyman What is desired. 7 y I a I claim:' Y a A device of the character described formed of a blank comprising a strip having an enlarged portion at each extremity and a third enlarged portion intermediate the extremities thereof,- said third enlarged portion arranged to receive an indicator, a flap stamped Irom the enlarged portion at one extremity of the strip, said strip arranged to be bent into circular form the enlarged 15 portions at the extremities thereof arranged to be overlapped and cemented together I forming a pocket.

In testimony that I claim the above, I i have hereunto subscribedmy name.

' 'WILLIAM F. ROBERTS. 

